Anthropology and Activism

This book offers a comprehensive and current look at the complex relationship between anthropology and activism.

Autorentext

Anna J. Willow is a Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University, USA. Her recent books include ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures (2017, co-edited with Kirk Jalbert, David Casagrande, and Stephanie Paladino) and Understanding ExtrACTIVISM: Culture and Power in Natural Resource Disputes (2018).

Kelly A. Yotebieng completed her PhD in the Ohio State University's Department of Anthropology. She currently consults full-time with the World Bank and various UN agencies.

Inhalt

Introduction: Doing Good Anthropology Part 1: Anthropology OF Activism 1. Environmental Justice in White Working-Class Communities: A Chemo-Social Perspective 2. GMO-Free Activism in Rural Southern Oregon: Motivations, Ideologies, and Values 3. Social Justice, Trauma-Informed Care, and "Liberation Acupuncture": Exploring the Activism of the Peoples Organization of Community Acupuncture 4. Engaged Ethnography in a Resident-Activist Environmental Justice Community Part 2: Anthropology AS Activism 5. All I Can Do: Why Activists (and Anthropologists) Act 6. In Our Own Backyard: Navigating Research and Activism in Southeast Florida 7. "I'd Never Thought about This Before": Anthropology of Cross-Disability Activism as Activism 8. "You Must Tell Our Stories!": Moving Toward Applied Anthropology and Beyond in the Groningen Gas Part 3 Anthropology AND Activism 9. We are Tired of Telling Our Stories: Finding Our "Situated Usefulness" Through Activism in Anthropology 10. Anthropology and Conflict Transformation: Promises and Dilemmas of Worldview Translation 11. Challenges of "Communiversity" Organizing in Trumplandia 12. Academic and Activist Collaboration in Turbulent Times: Responding to Immigrant Policing in Central Florida Afterword